Then passing by altogether the other idea which I said was only doubtfully suggested by the words -- namely, that of laceration and wounding -- let me say a word about the last of the aspects of humanity when Christless, which is set forth in this text, and that is, the dejected weariness arising from the fruitless wanderings wherewith men are cursed.

"He'll come back when the fifty pounds is exhausted," said he in a kind of dejected rage, "and when he does --" A clenched fist shaken at nothing terminated the speech and showed that the leopard could not change his spots.